David Wiley is the latest to line up behind badges (though in his Wiley-ish way, he can said he was talking about the value of badges rather than actually endorsing them (I am finding Wiley's writing less and less direct these days - he must be moving up in the world). "Rather than being a token representing course-level achievement, each badge is a token representing the achievement of a learning outcome." Rita Kop offers the necessary criticism: "by awarding badges to open learning episodes, for instance, you actually change them into closed courses. We already have lots and lots of those. So, why are people suddenly so obsessed with accreditation of open courses?" Exactly. Good point.
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